At the recent kickoff sponsor luncheon of the 30th Israel Film Festival at the Four Seasons Hotel, Meir Fenigstein addressed the some 150 attendees like a proud parent.
I needed some good ideas for a talk I was preparing on the parsha of the week, so I asked my friend Yitzi Hurwitz if he had anything.
In 1903, the Yiddish-language Forverts published a letter from a Russian immigrant, who’d written to say he didn’t understand the point of the game of baseball, the sport so beloved by all Americans.
Defining acceptable and unacceptable speech.
Last week, the regents of the University of California unanimously approved a landmark “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance” containing the following language: “Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.”
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